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 Reptiles
• are animals that exhibit more
adaptation for living on land.
They lay eggs with shell sto
protect them from drying. They
also have smooth or rough or
scales for protection from loss
of body water.
• an air- breathing vertebrate, as
a snake, lizard, or turtle,
characterize by a bony skeleton
and a covering of dry scales or
horny plates.
 • Lizards and snakes have
smooth scales. Example of
lizards are the house lizard,
gecko (tuko), monitor lizard
(bayawak), chameleon and
horned toad.
• Snakes are legless and have
flexible jaws to enable them
to swallow their prey whole.
House Lizards A common snake species is
the reticulated python seen
in zoos.
 • Poisonous species include
the cobra and the rattle
snake. Snakes however,
avoid people and do not
attack unless provoked or
hurt..

Gecko (tuko)
 • Maya- The term maya
refers to a folk taxon
often used in the
Philippines to refer to a
variety of small,
commonly observed
Monitor Lizard (bayawak)
passerine birds,
including a number of
sparrows, finches and
munias.
 • The Philippine eagle, also
known as the monkey-
eating eagle or great
Philippine eagle, is an
eagle of the family
Accipitridae endemic to
Monitor Lizard (bayawak)
forests in the Philippines.
It has brown and white-
colored plumage, and a
shaggy crest, and
generally measures 86 to
102 cm in length and
weighs 4.04 to 8.0 kg.
 • The Philippine eagle, also
known as the monkey-
eating eagle or great
Philippine eagle, is an
eagle of the family
Accipitridae endemic to
Monitor Lizard (bayawak)
forests in the Philippines.
It has brown and white-
colored plumage, and a
shaggy crest, and
generally measures 86 to
102 cm in length and
weighs 4.04 to 8.0 kg.
 • lligators and crocodiles are
considered fierce and are
known to attack both
animals and human beings.
They also share some
similarities in their
Monitor Lizard (bayawak)
appearance. Both the Nile
crocodile and the American
alligator have long tails with
jagged backs. The animals
have webbed feet, which
coupled with the long tails
makes them adept